Her conversations with Stephen range broadly over the complex challenges of photography and journalism, of the moral responsibility of journalists, of the nature of representation.
Above all, they reveal how complex a role photography can play, even as a mere hobby practiced in an out-of-the-way village.
The complex function of photography, and now computer imaging, is especially apparent in the I.C.P.'s current shows: two big ones accompanied by two pocket-size ones.
Recently organized by the center, it encompasses lectures, panel discussions and films addressing the complex role of photography in a post-9/11 world and will include a Midtown reinstallation of the acclaimed exhibition "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs," which had a long run in SoHo last fall.
"Think about the complex process that photography is and how it ought to be.
An exhibition titled "Scarlet Muse" at Daniel Cooney Fine Art will examine the work of 20 photographers from the 19th century to the present, tracing the storied and complex relationship between photography and prostitution. .
Ms. Shirreff is making a clever point about the complex relationship among earthworks, photography and tourism.
The identification of beauty as the ideal condition of a woman is, if anything, more powerful than ever, although today's hugely complex fashion-and- photography system sponsors norms of beauty that are far less provincial, more diverse, and favour brazen rather than demure ways of facing the camera.
Von Bruenchenhein's images belong to the complex history of set-up photography that gained critical mass in the early 1980s.
His works included complex sculptures and installations, paintings, photography and performance art and drew on influences from folk, comics and spiritualisms to pop psychology, punk and psychedelia.
